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Ballinger™

by Signal Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $60.00 USD
Complete family of 16 fonts: $375.00 USD
The Ballinger Font Family was designed by Max Phillips and published by Signal Type Foundry. Ballinger contains 16 styles and family package options.

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Ballinger began life as a single-weight proprietary typeface called baasic, designed for Dublin-based design office aad. baasic was intended as a plain, hardworking grotesque: a simple tool for clear communication. We’ve developed it into a fully-featured eight-weight family with matching italics. Sources include early 20th century jobbing sanses like Morris Benton’s News Gothic and Candia, a 70s-era typewriter face Josef Müller-Brockmann designed for Olivetti, which had unusually deep junctures that added energy to letters like m and n. The family takes its name from Raymond A. Ballinger, the great mid-century American designer, author of ‘Lettering Art in Modern Use,’ and champion of elegance and readability. Ballinger has large counters and a generous x-height. Letters like a, e, and s open out gradually as they move from Thin to Black to maintain ample apertures, even in the darkest weights. Semi-oldstyle figures are available, as well as case-sensitive punctuation and delimiters. Italics incorporate subtle ogee curves to lend warmth and energy to the page or screen. And, of course, it pairs well with its sister face,

Ballinger Mono

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Designers: Max Phillips

Publisher: Signal Type Foundry

Foundry: Signal Type Foundry

Design Owner: Signal Type Foundry

MyFonts debut: Nov 20, 2018

Ballinger™ is a trademark of Signal.

About Signal Type Foundry

Signal is a Dublin-based type foundry and drawing office run by by Max Phillips and offering 20 years of letter-making experience informed by 30 years of branding experience. We are dedicated to clarity of form, fitness for purpose, and the highest standards of craft. Our work has been recognised by, among others, the Type Directors Club of New York, Communication Arts, Graphis, and the ISTD.

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